“What is the word, Judith asks her mother, for someone who was a twin but is no longer a twin?”
― Hamnet
― Hamnet
“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“This harsh little man — this pitiless censor — gathers up all your poor scattered sins of vanity, your luckless chiffon of rose- color, your small fringe of a wreath, your small scrap of ribbon, your silly bit of lace, and calls you to account for the lot, and for each item. You are well habituated to be passed by as a shadow in Life's sunshine: it its a new thing to see one testily lifting his hand to screen his eyes, because you tease him with an obtrusive ray.”
― Villette
― Villette
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